1962 Topps #324 Joe McClain
About Joe McClain
Number 324 in the 1962 Topps set sits in the fourth series. His rookie card had come out the year before. The Senators he is pictured with had moved out of Griffith Stadium into brand-new D.C. Stadium for 1962, and McClain's stay there was short. He worked ten games, four of them starts, and lost every one of his four decisions, giving up 33 hits in 24 innings for a 9.38 earned run average with no complete games. Washington shipped him to Triple-A Syracuse, and he never pitched in the majors again.
Joseph Fred McClain, born May 5, 1933, in Johnson City, Tennessee, was a 6-foot right-hander who pitched at the University of Tennessee and signed with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1953. Military service cost him the 1954 and 1955 seasons, and he then worked through the farm systems of the Cardinals, the New York Yankees and the original Washington Senators, the club that became the Minnesota Twins. The expansion Senators took him in the minor league phase of the 1960 expansion draft, off the Charleston roster where he had just thrown 223 innings. He was 27 when he finally reached the majors, and he made it count: his debut on April 14, 1961, a complete game against the Cleveland Indians at Griffith Stadium, gave the expansion franchise the first win in its history. It bought him one full year in a big league rotation and no more. His two major league seasons, both in Washington, produced an 8-22 record and a 4.42 earned run average, and he threw his last professional innings for Triple-A Richmond in 1963.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 187 | 0 | 2 | 47 | 88 | 35 | 10 | 5 | 0 |
| SGC | 7 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Graded population — a scarcity guide, not a price. Snapshot 2026-09-24. Half-grades fold down (8.5→8), and PSA's qualified grades are counted separately from the straight-grade rows shown here. Slabs of the three cards printed #139 are joined by description, never by number alone. PSA registers the green tints as a separate set; a tint's population is listed under that state of the card it belongs to.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1962 Topps #324 card?
It is card #324 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Joe McClain of the Washington Senators.
How many cards are in the 1962 Topps Baseball set?
600 cards, tracked as 708 collectible states. The numbers run from 1 to 598 with no gaps, but three different cards were printed #139 - two Hal Reniff poses, catalogued 139a and 139b, and the Babe Hits 60 Babe Ruth Special, 139c - so 598 numbers make 600 cards; 93 cards carry catalogued print variations, the series-2 green tints among them, that the master set counts separately.
Sources: Baseball Almanac, Trading Card Database, PSA CardFacts, Cardboard Connection, BaseballCardPedia, The Topps Archives, Baseball-Reference, the SABR BioProject and the National Baseball Hall of Fame, PSA & SGC population reports. Card data compiled and maintained by T206Cards.com. Page last updated 2026-10-03.